Woven fabric.



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.1. Llvmason.

` WVEN FABRIC.

(Application Bled Mar. 7. 1901.)

Patented Aug. 20, |90l.

(No lillodal.)

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ma STATES l JAMES LIVINGSTON, `or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

woven FABRIC.'

1 T0 all whom 1125 may concern: 1, 1 Be it known that I, JAMES LIVINGSTON, a

l citizen of the United States, residing in Phila- `delphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements `in Woven Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

`1 The object of my invention'is to produce a wovenfabric having chenille figures distributed throughout the same in close imitation of figures produced by hand embroidery,these l figures by preference appearing alike on both `faces of the fabricand the method of Weaving adopted being a simple one whereby ligures of any desired coloring or shading may be readily produced.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is i. a view of a piece offabric made in accordance l with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of thesame-that is to say, a section i and Fig. 3 is a View of a piece of weft-thread such as is employed by me in Weaving my imtaken in the direction of the weft-threadsl l proved fabric.

o enceto each other as to produce the desired The fabricshown in Fig. l is composed of Warp-'threads l and weft-threads 2,interwoven in any ordinary manner so as to produce a` gauze, open-work, or leno fabric, the weftthreads 2 having at appropriate intervals bunches or tufts of chenille yarn, Which in the completed fabric are sodisposed with referfigures 3, which may be either plain or may be as elaborately colored as desired, depending upon the coloring of said tufts of chenille yarn. In producing these weft-threads the strands 2 are used as Warp-threads in an ordinary chenille-Weaving loom and are interwoven With the chenille-weft threads; but in-` stead of Weavin g a continuous fabric, as usual, said chenille-weft threads are introduced, so as to form strips or bands With intervening spaces formed by taking up any desired length of the Warp-threads without inserting any of SPECIFICATION forming* par!) feieters Patent N0. 681,126, dated August 20, 1901..

i Application iiled March 7 1901. Serial No. 50,188. (No specimens.) l

nille in successive picks will bear such relation to each other as to form the desired figures upon the fabric, these gures appearing the same upon both faces of the fabric owing to the open-Work or gauze character of the body of the fabric. Vhen a double-faced fabric is not desired, however, a backing fabric of any appropriate character may be combined with the face fabric having the chenille figures thereon.

The adoption of the gauze-weave prevents the beating up of the weft-threads so closely as to render too compact the chenille-carrying portions of the same. Hence the chenille gures have the soft loosely-woven qualities characteristic of ordinary chenille goods, the fabric having substantially-the same effect as though the figures were produced by hand embroidery.

While the gauze-Weave is preferable, it is not essential to the proper carrying out of my invention, since a plain Weave could be adopted if there was sufficient take-up of the Warp- `threads between successive picks of weftthread to insure space for the reception of the chenille-carryin g portions of said weft-thread without undue beating up of the figures formed thereby. In some cases, moreover, the strands having the spaced or separated tufts of chenille thereon may be used as Warpthreads instead of weft-threads, although the latter can be long enough for one repeat of the pattern, Whereas if used as Warp a much greater number of strands would be required and the operation of Weavingthe fabric would be more complex.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A fabric composed of interwoven Warp and weft threads and having chenille figures separated from each other by an intervening open or lace-like ground, the Lfigures being formed by tufts of chenille yarn disposed at intervals upon one of said threads.

2. A fabric composed of interwoven Warp and weft threads and having chenille figures separated from each other by an intervening open or lace-like ground, the figures being formed by tufts of chenille yarn disposed at intervals upon said weft-threads, substantially as specified.

3. An open-Work org-(muze fabric compose@ of interwoven'warp andweft threads and having chenille figures thereon, the warp-threads being twisted between the weft-threads and l5 the latter threads having tufts or bunches of chenille yarn at intervals thereon,which forml the chenille guresubstantially as specified.

In testimony -Whereof I have signed my name to =tl1is specification -in the presencecf two subscribing Witnesses.

JAMES LIVINGSTON.

Witnesses:

F. E. BECHTOLD, Jos. H. KLEIN. 

